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Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose
May 2, 2019 Discovery Institute
Fieldstead and Company, Irvine, California
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What Do We Really Know About Neanderthals?
May 1, 2019 Smithsonian Magazine
Revolutionary discoveries in archaeology show that the species long maligned as knuckle-dragging brutes deserve a new place in the human story
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Peregocetus pacificus, 43-million-year–old walking whale?
April 25, 2019 Creation Ministries International
Have they finally found the missing link?
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Book
Book Review: Unbelievable by Michael Newton Keas
April 25, 2019 Apologetics 315
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Blog Post
Calling Something a Whale Doesn’t Make It a Whale
April 25, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
This absurdly hyped fossil is a WINO -- Whale in Name Only.
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On Fantasy in Modern Science
April 25, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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DNA Uses “Climbers’ Ropes Method” to Keep Tangles at Bay
April 25, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researcher: Running Marathons Made Us Human
April 25, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Did humanity evolve to have psychopaths?
April 24, 2019 Big Think
Psychopaths are manipulative, violent, impulsive, and lack empathy -- but research suggests that psychopathy may be an evolutionary strategy rather than a disorder.
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This Is the First-Ever Simulation of an Entire Gene
April 24, 2019 Popular Mechanics
A group of researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have used a supercomputer to create a simulation that features more than a billion atoms.
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Meet Callichimaera perplexa, the platypus of crabs
April 24, 2019 Yale News
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No, Non-Believers Are Not Increasing in America
April 24, 2019 The Federalist
Weak Christianity is getting weaker and robust, and orthodox Christianity is getting stronger in terms of adherents, if not by theological maturity.
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News Update/Commentary
Rapid destruction of Earth-like atmospheres by young stars
April 24, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers show young stars rapidly destroy Earth-like nitrogen dominated atmospheres
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Computer Program Converts Brain Signals to a Synthetic Voice
April 24, 2019 The Scientist
A proof-of-principle study raises hopes that technology can give a voice to paralyzed people unable to speak.
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News Update/Commentary
Modern analysis of ancient hearths reveals Neanderthal settlement patterns
April 24, 2019 Science Daily
Microscopic and molecular evidence at paleolithic hearth sites helps uncover Neanderthal mobility habits
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How Scholars’ Perceptions of the Semantic Range of יוֹם Have Affected Their Discussions of the Age of the Universe: Part 2
April 24, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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News Update/Commentary
Veritable powerhouses -- even without DNA
April 24, 2019 Science Daily
Parasitic algae from the dinoflagellate lineage have organized their genetic material in an unprecedented way
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Müller Report: Meyer on an Evolutionist’s Indictment of Evolution, and More
April 24, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Megacarnivore Found in Drawer
April 24, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Teen Vogue, National Geographic Push Nature Rights Further into Mainstream
April 24, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Bacteria reveal strong individuality when navigating a maze
April 23, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers demonstrate that genetically identical cells exhibit differing responses in their motility towards chemical attractants. Average values hide the full picture when it comes to describing the behavior of bacteria.
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News Update/Commentary
Why unique finches keep their heads of many colors
April 23, 2019 Science Daily
An underlying selection mechanism prevents one color from dominating
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News Update/Commentary
Simple sea anemones not so simple after all
April 23, 2019 Science Daily
Tube-dwelling anemones have largest mitochondrial genome on record
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Genetic study homes in on height’s heritability mystery
April 23, 2019 Nature
Analysis of 20,000 genomes reveals that rare gene variants can help to explain how the trait is inherited.
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New Turmoil Over Predicting the Effects of Genes
April 23, 2019 Quanta Magazine
Promising efforts at disentangling the effects of genes and the environment on complicated traits may have been confounded by statistical problems.
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Falsifiability and physics
April 23, 2019 Symmetry magazine
Can a theory that isn’t completely testable still be useful to physics?
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New Evangelical Statement on AI Is Balanced and Well-Informed
April 23, 2019 Mind Matters
The signers are clearly (and rightly) skeptical that computers can become conscious moral agents
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Why Apes Are Not Spiritual Beings
April 23, 2019 Mind Matters
Apes do not have language, which enables humans to think about abstract ideas
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Despite Dozens of Authors, PNAS Paper Fails to Explain Bird Evolution
April 23, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Did Religion “Evolve”?
April 23, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Behe on Darwinism’s “Socially Inherited Dependence on Classical Yet Irrelevant Math”
April 23, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
How lifestyle affects our genes
April 23, 2019 Science Daily
In the past decade, knowledge of how lifestyle affects our genes, a research field called epigenetics, has grown exponentially. Researchers have summarized the state of scientific knowledge within epigenetics linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes.
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News Update/Commentary
Meet B. fragilis, a bacterium that moves into your gut and evolves to make itself at home
April 23, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have analyzed population genomics and metagenomics to investigate the microbiome evolution of Bacteroides fragilis, one of the most prevalent bacteria found in humans' large intestines.
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Researchers: Lizards on Islands Slow Down Evolution -- The Opposite of the Usual Claim
April 23, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Another Look at the Call to Abandon Statistical Significance
April 23, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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“Honey, I Ate the Kids” Cited As Evidence of Darwinism at Work
April 23, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Protein Turns Jumping Genes, Once Considered “Junk DNA,” from “Foes into Friends”
April 23, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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An Amphibious Whale from the Middle Eocene of Peru Reveals Early South Pacific Dispersal of Quadrupedal Cetaceans
April 22, 2019 Current Biology
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Is Evolutionary Ethics Compatible with Christian Ethics?
April 22, 2019 Uncommon Descent
UCal Stanislaus historian Richard Weikart writes to draw our attention to his talk at the European Leadership Forum in Poland
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Leading Darwinist Advocates Breeding Humans with Chimps
April 22, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New Attempts to Interbreed Humans and Chimps to Prove Evolution
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Beetles Freeloaded Off Ants 100 Million Years Ago
April 22, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Icefish Study Adds Another Color to the Story of Blood
April 22, 2019 Quanta Magazine
The rainbow of pigments that animals use for blood illustrates a central truth about evolution.
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Asian Diversity and the Seafaring Hominin
April 22, 2019 Core Academy of Science
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How Old Are Saturn's Rings? The Debate Rages On.
April 22, 2019 Live Science
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Secular Humanism is Not a Religion
April 22, 2019 Quillette
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News Update/Commentary
Island lizards are expert sunbathers, and researchers find it's slowing their evolution
April 22, 2019 Science Daily
Anoles -- diminutive little tree lizards -- spend much of their day shuttling in and out of shade. But this behavioral 'thermoregulation' isn't just affecting their body temperature. Surprisingly, it's also slowing their evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
DNA is managed like climbers' rope to help keep tangles at bay
April 22, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists have uncovered a process in cells that prevents DNA from becoming tangled, which resembles a method used to control climbers' ropes.
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Drone Finds Hawaiian Plant, Believed Extinct
April 22, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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At Quillette: Is Secular Humanism a Religion?
April 21, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Here’s a Pop Darwin Look at the Origin of Religion
April 21, 2019 Uncommon Descent
